Here’s a link to the Colorado Secretary of State’s rules for Poll Watchers.
Here are several articles from reputable journalists showing that watchers are allowed to roam.
Here’s the Poll Watcher Plan Clerk Mitchell must file with the Secretary of State. In it she says, “We will designate a spot in our elections processing room that will allow watchers to view all processes.”
The new election facility made all the news in September 2021.
This is the Sheriff’s body cam video from the call. Here are the names of the people involved.
0:49 Carle Linke, Poll Watcher.
3:14 Kathy Rodgers, a Republican election judge.
5:18 Lori Mitchell, Chaffee County Clerk and Recorder.
9:24 unidentified staff.
Here’s a link to a power point presentation describing a citizen’s attempts to obtain the 2020 election surveillance videos. Clicking on link will take you to a file sharing site called MediaFire. It will download the file and allow you to view the power point presentation.
If you are not logged in, you may have to click on the “DOWNLOAD” link on the upper right to view the power point presentation.
Here’s a link describing the famous squirt gun incident.
SoS election rule 7.4.5 states: The county clerk must arrange for the collection of ballots by bipartisan teams, of election judges and/or staff, from each drop box location once it is open and receive the ballots into SCORE.
I filed a CORA request for the Chaffee County 2022 primary ballot box logs. In the logs I saw some things that are plain wrong.
File = 2022 Primary election Voted Ballot transport log.pdf
- Page 2, 16th entry. The receiving seal is marked “open”. Receiving judge, or staff, did not sign.
- Page 3, 1st entry. Only one judge, or staff, signature applied.
File = 2022 Primary Election Transport Box Custody log 1.pdf
- Page 5, 7th entry. Only one judge, or staff, signature applied.
- Page 7, 2nd and 3rd entry. Only County Clerk’s, Lori Mitchell, signature applied!
- Page 10, 6th entry. Only one judge, or staff, signature applied.
Why can’t the DA be contacted and charge Lori Mitchel with the laws she is breaking or allowing to be broken?
Kathy
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
For the 2020 election, I filed an affidavit with the DA which got lost. They found the affidavit and assigned it to an ADA. The ADA said he didn’t know election law, so he had to study up on it. Finally, the ADA admits the law says the DA has to investigate and he said he assigned an investigator. After a few months later I wrote and asked how it was going. The ADA said it’s an on-going investigation, I can’t tell you. A few months after that, the ADA left the DA’s office.
So let me get this straight. If you go to the County Sheriff with proof of an election law violation, it is not their problem. Even though the Sheriff is the only option to implement change in real time, while an election is still in process. By the time you go to the DA, the election is already over. But the DA can just delay responding, then kick the can down the road some more, until the citizen finally stops trying. Meanwhile, that same DA’s Office made damn sure to bring Barry Morphew up on charges for voting for his missing wife. Morphew cheats one vote and it is nationwide news. But our Clerk disenfranchises thousands of voters, and the DA shrugs it off. Does that sum it up?
Yes, Colorado election law says to report any violation of election law to the DA.
The whole situation is appalling.
Colorado election Law:
1-13-702. Interfering with watcher.
Any person who intentionally interferes with any watcher while he is discharging his duties set forth in section 1-7-108 (3) is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 1-13-111.
1-13-111. Penalties for election offenses.
In all cases where an offense is denominated by this code as being a misdemeanor and no penalty is specified, the offender, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
It’s a lucky thing this is all a conspiracy theory. Otherwise, someone might begin to think that Colorado elections are completely out of control, and we are now officially a banana republic!
But wait, this data is all real! What does that mean?
Could it be the real conspiracy theorists are the ones who tell you there is no problem with our elections, and simply expect you to take their word for it? They then deny there is any evidence, at the same time using every crooked method at their disposal to prevent the public from finding out the truth.
Here’s surveillance video stills of our poll watcher. Plenty of room inside the ballot counting room to watch, but no.
The law doesn’t matter in an election. All that matters is what Mitchell says.
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Does anyone know if the Chaffee County Election Board has been contacted yet to see if they have the authorization to put a measure on the ballot for voters inn Chaffee County to vote on whether we want to get rid or keep the Dominion machines? I’m sure we will have to get signatures to have the measure put on the ballot but was wondering if the Election Board was the place to start.
I don’t know. All 64 Counties in Colorado use machines to count ballots. Only 2 Counties do NOT use the Dominion machines. I don’t know if it’s a Secretary of State requirement to count the ballots using a machine or not. So, I don’t know if it’s a State issue or a County issue. Sorry.
If it’s a State issue, you have to go to the Colorado Secretary of State. If it’s County issue, you have to go to the Chaffee County Clerk.